LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Panamanian Coaster Avenir
Pounding on bank GREAT YARMOUTH Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Lowestoft lifeboat station at 0215 on Thursday April 16, 1981, that the Panamanian coaster Avenir was aground l'/2 miles north east of Lowestoft and bouncing...
This Is Not the Start of the Tall Ships Race But the Excitement
This is not the start of the tall ships race but the excitement and competition felt at the start of the Pimlico Boat Race was comparable with it. Thirty-six 'boats' took part, each with a sponsored crew of four who raced their way... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
News from the Branches. 1st February to 30th April, 1936
1st February to 30th April, 1936.
Greater London.
On 1st March the following branches in the South-East of England were transferred to Greater London : Southend, Romford and Hornchurch, Upminster and...
Category: Branches
The Eyemouth Motor Fishing Boat Spes Bona (1)
MARCH 13TH. - ST. ABBS, and EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE. The Royal Observer Corps saw signals of distress and reported them to the police, who informed the St. Abbs Life-boat station at 2.30 in the afternoon. A whole northerly gale was blowing,...
Award of Ministry of Transport Shield
THE Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, Mr. Harold Watkinson, has awarded the shield for the best wreck service during the past year to the Blyth Coast Life-Saving Company. As a result of their efforts nine members of the crew of the s...
Category: Awards
Old Age and the Life-Boat Service. Helpers of 79, 86, 94, 98 and 102
REFERENCE has been made before in The Life-boat to the way in which old age continues to help the life-boats.
There are five more very touching examples of such service.
A Croydon lady 79 years old has...
Category: Articles
The Heavy Gales of October and November Last
THE unusually heavy gale, or rather hurricane, of the night of the 24th October last, was unexampled in its work of destruction in our maritime records. During the whole of that day not a single casualty, with one trifling exception,...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7* feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-cases, which give extra buoyancy...
Category: Articles
The Duke of Atholl
The Duke of Atholl checks one of the winning tickets with Angela Freeman, the Bournemouth Evening Echo's newspaper girl of the year.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Draw for a Gallon Bottle of Brandy
The draw for a gallon bottle of brandy, donated by Martell, was made at Kirkcudbright station annual dance last November.
Here, Coxswain George Davidson, DSM BEM, (r) presents the bottle to the winner, local blacksmith... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs